What is the book that Emile Hirsch reads in "Into the Wild"?

You can spot him reading a few different books:

• Family happiness (Leo Tolstoy)


• The Call of the Wild (Jack London)


• Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)

and, of course,

• Tanaina plantlore, Dena'ina k'et'una (Priscilla Russell Kari)

In the movie You can also see the entire book collection is carrying (at about minute 20), featuring:

• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)


• Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)


• The Call of the Wild (Jack London) [that I already cited]


• White Fang (Jack London)


• Taras Bulba (Nicolai Gogol)


• Walden (Henry David Thoreau)


• The Spectator Bird (Stegner)


• Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) [that I already cited]


• Family Happiness (Leo Tolstoy) [that I already cited]

According to the Krakauer's book, "Supertramp" was also carrying:

• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)


• Education of a Wandering Man (Louis L'Amour)


• Moon-Face (Jack London)


• Brown Wolf (Jack London)


• To Build a Fire (Jack London)


• Terminal Man (Michael Crichton)


• O Jersualem! (Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre)

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Hope this helps.